© 2009 American Public Health Association DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2009.171694
Aimee Swartz is a medical writer living in Northampton, MA, and is a 14-year return volunteer at Camp Sunrise Correspondence: Correspondence can be sent to Aimee Swartz via e-mail: aimee{at}aimeeswartz.com. Reprints can be ordered at http://www.ajph.org by clicking on the "Reprints/Eprints" link.
As the sun sets behind the first campfire, children's faces are silhouetted in the darkness. In this moment and the days to follow at Camp Sunrise, it is impossible to tell who is living with HIV/AIDS and who is not. According to Jina Gonzalez, that is precisely the point of camps—like Ohio-based Camp Sunrise—that are devoted to serving children affected by HIV/AIDS.
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